Owens Corning releases Sustainability Report

Owens Corning has released its sixth annual Sustainability Report, which showed year-over-year intensity reductions in all environmental goals set and a list of innovation-driven achievements.

Among the accomplishments highlighted is a reduction in waste-to-landfill intensity by 22% in 2011, which represents an absolute reduction of more than 37,000 metric tons. Owens Corning also reduced its toxic air emissions intensity by 37% last year. That amounts to an absolute reduction of 236 metric tons.

This is the first year the company is reporting against its new 2020 goals. Introduced last year, the company's 2020 goals are designed to expand the scope and further raise the bar on its commitment to sustainability.

"At Owens Corning, sustainability is a core business strategy," said VP and chief sustainability officer Frank O'Brien-Bernini. "Operationally, this drives decision-making that considers the economic, social and environmental impacts of everything we do."